Guy Pratt went from playing bass in Pink Floyd to ringing the bells in his East Sussex church - and he loves it
Many old rockers have taken up – or have always had a yen for – more genteel pursuits. Bill Wyman is such a keen detectorist that he endorses his own signature metal detector. Sir Rod Stewart has his enormous Manhattan train set – when he isn’t out fixing potholes. I’ve never been a hobby man myself, always thinking of it as the ‘H’ word. Shudder…. But, three and a bit years ago, we moved to the country, up a somewhat challenging track on the South Downs, just outside the preposterously charming village of Alfriston. I’m usually away a couple of months or so a year on tour but, last year, there was nothing on offer and I had a book to write. So I properly embraced living where we were for perhaps the first time. There had been an event at the war memorial hall where all the various local...
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